The annual meeting of the Polanyi Society is November 17 and 18, 2017 in Boston. There are two sessions on November 17 with six papers on a variety of topics, and, on November 18, there is a six-hour workshop “Trade, Employment, and Public Policy: Polanyi Then and Now” at nearby MIT. This event focuses on Michael Polanyi’s Full Employment and Free Trade (1945), his economics education film and his work as an economist. The workshop, organized by Anne McCants (MIT) and Eduardo Beira (MIT Portugal Program and IN+, Portugal), will include discussion of seven papers as well as a graduate student panel discussion. Most of the papers for the November 17 sessions and the workshop are now posted; others should be added in early November. Information about the annual meeting (e.g., the program sessions with links to papers) is available on the Polanyi Society web site (http://polanyisociety.org ) under the link for 2017 Annual Meeting Program.There you will also find times and locations for sessions and the workshop as well as directions for reaching MIT Building E51 where the workshop is to be held. There is a link to the American edition of Full Employment and Free Trade and a link to Polanyi’s film, “Unemployment and Money. The Principles Involved.” There is also a YouTube link that can be used to follow the workshop online in real time.

Anyone interested in attending any component of the annual meeting is welcome; it is not necessary to register. Anyone interested is also invited to participate in the June 6-9, 2018 Polanyi Society conference (“Michael Polanyi and the Post-Critical Turn”) at Nashotah, WI. Information about this conference and a call for papers appeared on the Polanyi discussion list at the end of October. If you are not on the Polanyi Society e-mail list and wish to be, please send directly to me an e-mail request. Those on the list receive three times each year a Table of Contents e-mail (with links to articles) when each new issue of Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Journal is posted online, as well as a few notices such as this one with information about upcoming annual meetings and conferences.

FINAL REMINDER RE CALL FOR PAPERS: THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS (3000 wds) OR ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS (200 wds) IS THIS FRIDAY, MAY 1ST.

&nbsp It is now possible to pay on-line with debit/credit cards or PayPal accounts via a secure link to PayPal on the website.
&nbsp For full details of the Conference please go to www.spcps.org.uk/intlconf.html

&nbsp The final date for payment for rooms at Derby Hall is June 15th. It would help me with paying deposits, and would secure you a room at Derby Hall, if you could please pay your conference fee as soon as possible.
&nbsp There will be 2 plenary sessions in the programme, one on Tom Buford's new book and one on Michael Polanyi. There may also be a day devoted mostly to British contributions to the study of persons, with opportunities for relevant societies to have small displays.
&nbsp If you have any questions about accommodation, travel etc, please contact me, and about submission of papers and the programme, Randy Auxier, drauxier@yahoo.com.

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&nbsp I hope to see several of you at this conference.